In this volume, Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy developed in European cultures.
In this volume, Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy developed in European cultures.
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
Inhaltsangabe
Series Editor's Forward Preface Chapter 1 Rationality, the mind and scriptism Chapter 2 The primitive mind revisited Chapter 3 Logicality and prelogicality Chapter 4 Reason and primitive languages Chapter 5 The great divide Chapter 6 Aristotle's language myth Chapter 7 Logic and the tyranny of the alphabet Chapter 8 Literacy and numeracy Chapter 9 Interlude: constructing a language-game Chapter 10 The literate revolution and its consequences Chapter 11 The fallout from literacy Chapter 12 Epilogue: rethinking rationality Bibliography Index
Series Editor's Forward Preface Chapter 1 Rationality, the mind and scriptism Chapter 2 The primitive mind revisited Chapter 3 Logicality and prelogicality Chapter 4 Reason and primitive languages Chapter 5 The great divide Chapter 6 Aristotle's language myth Chapter 7 Logic and the tyranny of the alphabet Chapter 8 Literacy and numeracy Chapter 9 Interlude: constructing a language-game Chapter 10 The literate revolution and its consequences Chapter 11 The fallout from literacy Chapter 12 Epilogue: rethinking rationality Bibliography Index
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